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On 05/05/2010 03:15 PM, Dr. Friedrich Katscher wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Dear friends, </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">This is distress call, and I implore
help from you. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I am an out-dated man (really 87
years old), and have not changed my Latex-MikTex software since the
beginning many years ago. (I fear to lose my valuable stored old
texts.)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">But it worked very well: I have
written thousands of pages of mathematical papers without any
difficulty -- a proof of its excellent quality.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><u>But today I cannot transform my
LaTex text in dvi. </u></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">With toil I have copied the chinese
of the black box, which opens when I click on LaTex, and in
general says at the end in German "Press any key you like!"</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Probably you are able to decipher
this code, and tell me what error I made.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">And probably it is not difficult to
correct what I did wrong.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><This is e-Tex. Version
3.141592-2.1 (Mik Tex 2.4) entering extended mode</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><Approximations.tex
((that is the title of my paper))</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">La Tex 2e <2003/12/01></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Babel <v3.8a> and hyphenation
pattern for english, french, german, ngerman, italian, dumylang,
nohyphenation, loaded.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><C:
\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Document Class: article 2004/02/16
v1.4f Standard La Tex document class</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\size10.clo>><C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\fontenc.sty</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\t1enc.def>><C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\inputenc.sty</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\latin1.def>><C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\latexsym.sty></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><Approximations.aux><C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\ulasy.fd></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Overfull \hbox <1.669pt too
wide> in paragraph at lines 37--50</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">[ ][ ]\T/cmr/m/n/10 All we know
about Abu Za-kariya <in other manuscripts Abu Bakr> Muham-</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">[1][2][3][4][5]</font></div>
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<font size="2"><font face="Arial">One of the many previous messages
suggested that you should insert an \end, or a \bye statement early in
your document, and get the first three or four pages. That seems to be
the simplest and most effective approach. keep moving the statement
down through your manuscript until what you get looks like this
again. <br>
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It looks as if you have got to an infinite loop somehow. TeX usually
gives you a message about something like an overflow of a stack and
advises that you should recompile if you need more space.<br>
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You almost never do. since the problem can usually be traced to
miscoding. At this point it looks as if your entire system is spinning
its wheels so fast that TeX cannot get a word in. <br>
If you use one of the performance measures (I don't do windows) you
will probably see that your LaTeX job is taking up 99.9 percent of your
cpu cycles. <br>
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If the </font></font><br>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">[1][2][3][4][5]</font></div>
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page numbers come up VERY fast, you may accidentally be producing pages
with minimal dimensions. That could result from a mistyping such as
10pt in place of 10pc. (I have done that all too often).<br>
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In any case, what you need is to get even one page out if you can. Put
lines 37-50 back in, because there is some evidence that they really
did set something, and the problem comes a bit later. <br>
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Is the line <font face="Arial" size="2">[ ][ ]\T/cmr/m/n/10 All we
know about Abu Za-kariya <in other manuscripts Abu Bakr> Muham-</font>
shown in your log the very first line? In that case you probably
reduced either the page width or the page depth very shortly after.
The line you show is a reasonable length, so you might start with the
\end statement at the end of that paragraph. <br>
<br>
Pierre MacKay (emeritus professor of Classics and Near Eastern
Languages)<br>
(I am only 77, so you have 10 years on me. The best of good health to
you.)<br>
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